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Amazon will open up Kindle for the web and then whatever value-add Apple supposes they are adding will simply vanish.
by svlla 16y ago
Amazon will open up Kindle for the web and then whatever value-add Apple supposes they are adding will simply vanish.
- teilo 16y agoSorry, but you don't realize how many of us use our iPads to read when there is no Wifi connection around. We can't do that with a web app. I am outraged, fuming really. I read my Kindle books on my iPad all the time. If they do not reverse this, this will all but guarantee that I am switching to an Android tablet as soon as it becomes a viable contender. Honeycomb can't get here soon enough.
- lukifer 16y agoIf it's coded properly, a web app can absolutely store books, as well as its own code, offline.
- blinkingled 16y agoHTML5 localStorage / cache manifest / Offline Web Apps can deal with that perhaps? http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/SafariJSDatabaseGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/iPh...
- teilo 16y agoI did not know about that. Well, let's just hope, then. Still pisses me off.
- pedalpete 16y agosafari supports HTML 5 Storage and apparently there is a 5 mb limitation per url. Looks like most of my kindle books are under 500kb, so that shouldn't be an issue.